Social Innovations

Beware the Lone Genius

In the open-minded work environment
of the Liberty Hill Foundation,
a Los Angeles County social justice
organization, even workaday staff
meetings are imaginative. Ideas often
pop and fly “like popcorn, says Torie
Osborn, the organization’s executive
director. Osborn attributes the
group’s ability to perceive new challenges
and reframe old ones to the
organization’s long-standing traditions
of camaraderie and communication.
What she calls “management by
adhocracy, instead of by...

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